Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
#quotes #ryszard-kapuscinski #patriotism #power #russia #poland

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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