To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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