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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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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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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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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