Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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If you didn't watch "The Shield," you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch "The Shield." ~Timothy Simons
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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