A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
#quotes #paul-merton #teaching

I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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