Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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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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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese 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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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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