Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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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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I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German 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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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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