If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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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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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English 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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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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