Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it, ~Marek Siwiec
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian 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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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen 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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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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