The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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