When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian 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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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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