May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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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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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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