One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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