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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosRemember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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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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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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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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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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