I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English 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 above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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