The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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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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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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