Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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