On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~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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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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