A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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