As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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