A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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