An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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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[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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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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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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