One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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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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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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