A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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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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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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