Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic 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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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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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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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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