It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. ~Lauren Willig
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The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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