Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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