For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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