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D4est"i dont think youth is wasted on the young. because we have to go through things in life to become who we are today. old people...
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It means, "Listen to me"
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Klemens von Metternich. See the related link for more quotes and info.
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This has been attributed to Sun-tzu, Chinese general and military strategist. The full quote is "Keep your friends close and your...
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Even those without much ability or talent are viewed highly by those with no ability or talent at all.I've always intrepreted...
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you cannot erase it. - Anonymous Yesterday is history. Tomorrow...
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After attempting to maintain many friendships over the years, I have determined that most people are just to much trouble to...
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George Bernard Shaw.
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when you start making those people redundant make sure you keep the best - don't throw the baby our with the bathwater. We use...
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Multinationals is both bane and boon and it is equally bane and boon, here are some points with which i can support my point.MNCs...
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"Why try when were all going to die. Class of 2012." "Class of 2012: You wish you were 1 2. (one too)"We're the 1's you love 2...
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the best quote is what makes you feel good, makes you want to change the world, or even inspires you, or just simply makes your...
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The phrase 'a posse ad esse' is one of the Latin proverbs. The word-by-word translation is the following: 'a' means 'from';...
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Here are some quotations suggested by our contributors: [Beware, however, that some sayings were uttered at various times and in...
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i dont no either
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Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water....
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"Great dicoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think".- Wilhelm Roentgen-A history of science and...
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He has been in the city, in London, for five years. Cut off from nature, which is why his return is so significant.
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It means if you can't create beauty yourself, then try to be an inspiration to others.
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Miss Maudie said that
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If it is in the room, it stays in the room.
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AnswerIt is derived from the writings of the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who wrote: "If a man loses pace with his...
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His best known saying is: 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. It is often misquoted as 'All power...
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Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
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It came from a poem, "Risk" Risk And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the...
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This was an advertising slogan used by the fast food restaurant chain, Wendy's, in the 1980's, and was popularized in commercials...
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In a general sense, mergers and takeovers (or acquisitions) are very similar corporate actions - they combine two previously...
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Kotahi te kohao o te ngira e kuhuna ai te miro ma te miro wherote miro pango ko tera te whakatauaki o Kingi Tawhiao.
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Origin This is first recorded in John Ray's A collection of English proverbs 1670, 1678: "The early bird catcheth the worm." ...
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An inference is an educated guess based on given knowledge. For example, if you're reading a story and the setting is rainy, then...
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Someone who disrupts the natural pattern of a process, family etc. Basically an individual who never gets things right and...
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My father used to use the expression after a good meal: "If my sufficiency was suffonsified any more it would be obnoxious to my...
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To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. ** Ten Times One is Ten...
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I don't think anybody knows who said it first, it's an old saying that goes back to the mid 1800s when Manchester was leading the...
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Reinhold Niebuhr Addendum: Niebuhr's, The Serenity Prayer (1934) reads: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things...
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Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-89) British philosopher, who influenced the development of contemporary analytic philosophy If the...
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"Richard the Lion-Hearted " is an epithet for Richard I Alexander the Great or Little miss know it all
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Leave no stone unturned means to search every possible location.
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In Latin, it should mean "to the summit".
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The answer to this question is Sir M. Connelly of the 3rd battalian of WW2 said "thats a can do boss."
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We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now two headaches for every aspirin.
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when you know something, recognize that you know it, when you don't know something, recognize that you don't know it that is...
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It was actually Marius Gherghinescu who actually said that. And it goes on much longer than that.
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Apparently, Marie Antoinette said this during the French Revolution, however it's a myth. She probably didn't say that.
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"Stupid is as stupid does" indicates that a person is judged stupid by the stupid acts they commit. A1. The phrase "beauty is as...
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I think it means when something seems cool and awesome but in reality it's not all that great.
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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is what's commonly called 'the Golden Rule', and it was part of Jesus' Sermon...
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It means that it's better to have a thing of lesser value in reality than it is to have something of greater value in theory. ...
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It became a part of the US in 1848.Gunfight at the OK Corral.Statehood.Construction of the Hoover Dam.
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Psalm 119:103 "How sweet are your words to my taste,sweeter than honey to my mouth! "
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Limp!
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Every one has different preferences, It does not matter who they are, where they are or...
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I dont know thats why I asked this dumb website but they don't have the stinking answer
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"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons." Probably said by Napoleon Bonaparte. (Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,...
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We use this expression when we want to keep the valuable things when we get rid of the things we don't want. It is usually used...
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An enterprise is "a purposeful endeavor". Individual persons, groups, organizations, and communities can pursue an "enterprise".
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The "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, H-O" by J.E. Lighter (Random House, New York, 1997) lists several...
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First, note that it is "bated" breath. Though the form "baited" is often used, it is still considered to be a misspelling....
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Molly Pitcher did not have a qoute. Some sites say that she said "These are the times that try men's souls." But that is wrong,...
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It was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Remember that time is money."
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Thomas Paine, this is a quote taken from 'The Crisis' (1776-77)
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Representing a pronunciation of French m'aider, from venez m'aider 'come and help me.' ANSWER They told me when I was a kid that...
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The longest sentence in English literature is contained in four volumes of Nigel Tomm's novel The Blah Story (Volume 16, 17, 18...
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You mean C'est la vie ( pronounced say la vee) - French for "that's life."
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Glad to help!! "Bobo" mean fool in spanish!!!
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Take the blame, not the credit To make your friends feel that there is something in them. To be as enthusiastic about the...
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A man who makes a pun should be drawn and quoted.
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These words were spoken by Neil Armstrong as he stepped off the Lunar Excursion Module on to the surface of The Moon on 21st...
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watch your enimies more than your friends because your friends you dont have to worry bout hurting you
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There are several versions of the saying and different claims as to who said it first. There is a display of the quote at the...
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The Usual Suspects also was in End of days
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"We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We...
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It means pretty much what it says - better to have whatever it was happen late than to not have it at all. You might hear this...
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It means you don't just look at something (or someone)and judge it (or him) right away. Ex. You see a book you should maybe do...
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It means that a child does not just grow up within a home, where there may be a single parent or a combination of parents, but a...
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This is a quotation from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It is part of a soliliquy Hamlet makes when deciding whether to kill...
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i did, i am just a poor man who has a dangerous obsession about the unanswerable things in life, and who cares who wrote it! you...
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The rain whispered The rain hammered The rain seemed to knock The rain drummed a beat The rain fought The rain attacked The...
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To look at evil and dismiss it, to not do anything about said evil, is to be a "partner in crime" so to speak. An accomplice of...
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Here are three to get you started: "Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth Tell you, I do...
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I once spoke with a Holocaust Survivor who was 12 years old at the time. She told me that she had been in Auschwitz and had the...
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No reason means no way to explain things. No rhyme means, nothing rhymes. Bahaha, I am reading The Phantom Tollbooth, too. (:
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It is proverbial that a bad workman never yet had a good tool'
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he acctually had about 20-30 quotes here are all of them ( I think ).A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in...
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It means instead of being upfront and honest with how you feel, you keep it hidden inside, which can torture the person who needs...
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I heard this line in a play in 1953 but do not know the name of the play. Any ideas? According to TVtropes.org this comes from a...
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash If you would not be forgotten as...
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