Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish 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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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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