I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. ~Miles Teller
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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