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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosEvery day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
#proverbs #rwandan-proverbs #self
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
#quotes #richard-ford #poverty #floods #new-orleans
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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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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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #perspective
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #carpe-diem
Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic 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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