The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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