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"The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth." »Rebecca West
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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha
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"We have some salt of our youth in us." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3
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"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it." »English Proverb
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality." »The Talmud
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"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places." »Latin Proverb
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"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." »Arthur Stringer
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"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error." »Gen. Peyton C. March
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"Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline." »Vince Lombardi
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter." »Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)
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"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter
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"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter
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"CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" »Jeffrey Vlaming
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