Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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