This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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