Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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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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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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