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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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quotistA son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian 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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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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