Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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