Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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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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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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