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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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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