An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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