Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. ~Justin Bieber
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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