A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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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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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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