May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German 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 little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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