Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish 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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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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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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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
#quotes #wynton-marsalis #black #culture
A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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