I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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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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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish 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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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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