You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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