Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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