Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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