It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. ~Don Henley
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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