Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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