Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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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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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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