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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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proverbiosI am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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randomNever strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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