When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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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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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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