The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish 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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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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