If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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