Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
#message #cute #goodnight

Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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