The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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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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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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