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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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proverbiosAn ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish 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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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music
The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
#quotes #george-herbert #honor
And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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