Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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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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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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