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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosI have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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