Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German 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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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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