A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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