Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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