Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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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 listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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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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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish 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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I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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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 would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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