Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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