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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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quotistWhen an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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