The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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