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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosPossessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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randomIf you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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