He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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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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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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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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