Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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