I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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