A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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