A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
#proverbs #mother #language

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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