The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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