Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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