A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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