If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish 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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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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