A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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