You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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