The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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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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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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