The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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