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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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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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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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