One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English 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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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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