He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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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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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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