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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
#proverbs #bulgarian-proverbs #reality
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quotistA whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
#quotes #wynton-marsalis #black #culture
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping
You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #persistence
Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
#quotes #marquise-de-sevigne #marie-de-rabutin-chantal #feelings
No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #reason
Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
#quotes #melina-marchetta #men #common-sense #speaking
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
#quotes #norman-vincent-peale #failure #success #attitude #optimism
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
#quotes #olympia-dukakis #hollywood #success