Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English 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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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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