Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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