No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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