From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~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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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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