A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. ~Big Boi
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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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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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African 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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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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