If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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