A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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