Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German 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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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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