I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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