Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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