What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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