Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish 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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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it, ~Marek Siwiec
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