If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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