Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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