People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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A healthy man is a successful man. ~French Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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