There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish 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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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German 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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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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