A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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