And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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