Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
#quotes #ursula-k-le-guin #music #knowledge #faith

A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American 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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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
#quotes #bryan-lee-o-malley #life #places

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

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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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
#quotes #stephen-graham