Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English 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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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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