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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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proverbiosNo matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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