Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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