He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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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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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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