"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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