Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. ~Kelly Rowland
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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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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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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