Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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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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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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