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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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese 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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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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