The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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