Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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