In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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