A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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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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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ~Steve Waugh
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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