The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese 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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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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