A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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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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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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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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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. Never. ~Daniel Handler
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