Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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