Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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