A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East 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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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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