If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish 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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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~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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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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