A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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