A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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