A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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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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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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