A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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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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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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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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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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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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