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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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
#friendship #relationship #love

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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