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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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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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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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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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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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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Achilles absent was Achilles still! ~Homer
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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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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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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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English 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
#quotes #ashley-tisdale #movies #night #thinking #imagination

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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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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