Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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