If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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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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I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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