If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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