A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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