A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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