An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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