The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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