Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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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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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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