Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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