Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese 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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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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