In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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