Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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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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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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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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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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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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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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