If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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