My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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