Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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