proverbiosThe bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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quotistDo bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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