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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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French 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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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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