If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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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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