What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German 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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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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