Best Thirty Proverbs
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I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.
— Danny Baker
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I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one…
— Tibor Fischer
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I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
— Paul Haggis
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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is…
— Michel Legrand
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as…
— Bertrand Russell
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you,…
— Olympia Dukakis
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Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
— Laozi
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not…
— Lukas Foss
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty…
— Barry Hughart
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
— Ben Hecht
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I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
— Richard Brautigan
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I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted…
— Alexander Dubcek
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who…
— Ernest Gellner
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must…
— Billie Holiday
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There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty…
— Unknown Author
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Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven…
— Anthony Minghella
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Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information,…
— Sugata Mitra
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is…
— Laozi
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We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the…
— Robert Bly
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