Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo 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
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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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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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that. ~Bill Hicks
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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