A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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