You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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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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In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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