Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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