I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese 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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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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