Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand. ~Proverb
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