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
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish 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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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