Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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