A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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