If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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