A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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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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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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