Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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