A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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