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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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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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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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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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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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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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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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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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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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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