Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German 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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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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