The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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