When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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