A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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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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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. ~Zoe Sugg
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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
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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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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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