Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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