She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav 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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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~Amy Adams
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic 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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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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