A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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