Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian 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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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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