In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African 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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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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