Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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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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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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