The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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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
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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