If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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