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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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proverbiosChess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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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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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French 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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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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