Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek 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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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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