A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish 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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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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