Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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