When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek 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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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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