A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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