Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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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 man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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