I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German 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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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
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