As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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I make the girls jump like I am Kris Kross. ~Nicki Minaj
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese 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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