Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian 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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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English 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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