I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene. ~Grimes
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
#quotes #robert-harris #children #happiness

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
#quotes #bob-dylan #beauty #pain

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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