You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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