Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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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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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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