They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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