Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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