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D4estThe commonly used expression, "Those who ignore history are bound (or doomed) to repeat it" is actually a mis-quotation of the...
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It means to leave one bad situation and get into a worse one. Sometimes people work so hard to get out of one situation that they...
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"Beggars can't be choosers" means that if you beg for something free, you don't have a say in what you get. It's something you...
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A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has meaning. For example Cats has two morphemes- cat (singular) and -s (plural)....
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It's a Mother Goose nursery rhyme: : To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, : Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. : To...
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The phrase "All that glisters is not gold" comes from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene VII. In a sub-plot of...
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This actually means the opposite of what people think it means -- lots of people think it means for you to be a friend. It means...
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Be patient. The things you desire will come to fruition in their own time.
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Cindy is short for Cynthia, which comes from the Greek name Kynthia. It means a peson from Kynthos. But in all other languages,...
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"Well, that takes the cake", a response of dismay when someone has done something unworthy that you don't expect of them."You...
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The English translation of 'Haec habui quae scivi et laeta recta peregi Quaeque relicta jacent mentem tamen acta sequuntur' is I...
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One of Texas famous is 'This is our land'.
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Yes, it is said if you look a horse in the eye straight in the eye thus their mind processes it as a sign of danger or a sign...
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." people believe Jimi Hendrix was the creator of...
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It's when you die inside. You go to your job every day. The years pass by so fast you almost don't even notice. The highlight of...
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He's had a wife, and flirted with many women. But, that question can not be answered unless he were alive.
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"In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to...
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made...
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The verse "All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold....
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In British English, it's "colour," and in American English it's "color." Most websites say that colour is the wrong way of...
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To be, or not to be....
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TDhirubhai ambani
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A friend to all is a friend to none. AristotleA good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato A hero is born...
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This is the paraphrased version of the 1697 William Congreve quote: "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a...
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There are many good translation sites on-line that are free. If the link to the left doesn't have your language of interest,...
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If you had a million dollars in the bank, you would have the means to give it to others to help them. However, if you don't have...
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If you have ever studied mythology, this should be familiar to you. This is just a recap. The Trojan War was between Greeks and...
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Luck is typically personified as a Lady. When luck enters your life, you should offer her a seat and ask her to stay - or in...
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Captain James T. Kirk spok
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When the current Ohio State University president plucks a nose hair he shouts, "gee willikers."
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"None so blind as those who will not see" appears in Matthew Henry's Commentaries (1708-1710). The proverb is an echo of The...
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there may exist different solutions to a problem,but the answer is always the same!
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it means that even though personA loves person B alot, she is not going to compliment him and flatter him because she doesn't...
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It is not RAISE the city; it is RAZE the city. Raising a city to the ground is an oxymoron. RAZE also spelled RASE: tr.v.,...
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fools seldom differ
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It's a line spoken by Juliet in the famous balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet. She is on her balcony, not knowing that Romeo is...
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This idiom means that the sexes should be treated in the same way and not be subjected to different standards. Used to be 'What's...
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The meaning is if you have mistakes do not criticize people in a negative manner over their mistakes. You might think the meaning...
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John Donne (1572-1631). It appears in Meditation XVII (17) where he wrote: 'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a...
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yesno why do you say that... seriously common sense people
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It means"you wanna bet?"I believe it means that if you believe in something so deeply stop talking about it and make that change...
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It was said by Friar Lawrence to Romeo in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene VI) Friar Laurence says this to...
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"Where are the meatballs?" "sandwiches""are you my mum""lettuce""I'm going to come at you like a spider monkey!""I'll be on you...
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Originally said by the nihilist philosopher, Frederich Nietzsche in his book, "Twilight of Idols."
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Benjamin Franklin wrote that quote as Poor Richard in his famous Poor Richard's Almanack. Franklin published the Almanacks yearly...
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"Half a dozen = 6. So "six" and "half a dozen" are two ways of saying the same thing. The expression means that there is no...
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I don't really know but before he died it was his dream for it to come true so then they made his dream come true when he died to...
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The term is often ironically used to describe someone (male or female) with exaggerating self-consideration, who wishes to be...
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This saying comes from cooking - you don't make sauce for the male goose and sauce for the female - you make one sauce. As an...
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Way, way too many to mention but here are some of my favourites: "I want to do to you what Spring does with the cherry...
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John Lennon, but at the moment it's made popular by the movie 'The best Little Marigold Hotel!
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William Shakespeare.
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Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Sc. ii, line 43.Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II, Lines 43-44).
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This quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay, Self-Reliance: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,...
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From Shakespear's "The Merchant of Venice"
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The use of agricultural subsidies is widespread in the Caribbean. The objectives are: to encourage adoption of improved...
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possibly Frank Schaeffer, author ofCrazy For God, used it on Rachel Maddow's show tonight.
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More than 100 islands :)
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"I'll tell you how that happened. When I was a dancer, Monique Van Vooren had a nightclub act and she uses three guys as backup....
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Class of 2014: Party hard, rock and roll, we are the class you can't control, our girls are pimpin', our guys are great, we ain't...
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"True friendships last forever."
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Who Said It: Jeremiah When: 700 B.C. The Story behind It: Found in the Old Testament (Jer. 13:23), these words are spoken by the...
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i could eat a peach for hours (:stephanie acosta loves kristalyn &antero!!
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Plato "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
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Its unknown, the author of this quote wished to remain anonomous. ~
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If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you, its your forever, if it does not then it was never meant to be. Quoted...
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This quote by Abraham Lincoln means that it is necessary to succeed in your long term goals opposed to littler ones. Such as when...
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"Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor...
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It's from different movies and shows I can't be specific though.
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Edited episode 108: Goku's Special Technique. He says this when hes explaining to Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, Tien, Chiaotzu,...
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Point out that SILENCE is also a virtue and if they don't shut the hell up they will become a patient !!
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This is a variation on a very well known saying, "time is money". Of course, time is not actually money, this is a metaphor....
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Lady MacBeth (if I remember the characters speaking correctly) is being praised for her courageous character (undaunted meaning...
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Federico Fellini said that... a longer version is "Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing...
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Parliament Member George Galloway said on 08/06/06 it during an interview with Skywatch news in defense of Hizbollah and the...
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Erin Brockovich
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really really fat i mean like were talkin 900 lb. of pure fat. people that are deperate!
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It means that you can do what ever you want to that individual as long as it is only a thought....but you can't actually...
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I find this to be an interesting question which could have answers that vary from one individual to the next. However on that...
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In the Spanish language there is a similar phrase... "El que no llora, no mama." The aforementioned phrase and the one in...
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A primary source is one with first-hand knowledge, privy to or actually involved in the activity in question.
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Ronnie Radke's full name is indeed Ronald Joseph Radke.
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Essentially, this phrase means: 'this is fun!' Being the funnest of fun things to do - "Riding that roller coaster was a a...
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Ah-lease Wolat Pro-Pee-Ees, is the ancient Latin pronunciation. However, in modern Latin the W in Wolat can be swapped with a...
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Fulghum was quoting Albert Einstein in "All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"
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That would be something like: "I agree with that"
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Jacob Riis
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Its from the movie Friday after the Next with Ice Cude, Mike Epps, and Kate Willams (also mentioned in the film 'Romeo Must Die'...
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This phrase means "Work Will Set You Free". The expression comes from the title of a novel by German Lorenz Diefenbach titled...
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Another way to say it would be, "a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush."
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The ultimate goal of a teacher is for the student to have no need for a teacher. Over time the teacher becomes less and less...
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