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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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proverbiosThe person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian 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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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew 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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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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