An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic 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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