Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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