The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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