Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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