I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
#quotes #anne-ursu
I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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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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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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