She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish 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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Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out, you still care for the person.
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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