A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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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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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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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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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ~Martin Van Buren
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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