Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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