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 you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen 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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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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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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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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