Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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