One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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People are cooking less but obsessing about it more. ~Dougie Poynter
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#eating #cooking #obsession

Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
#quotes #john-lewis #black #elections #ohio

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
#quotes #ouida #family #hardship

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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