Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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