The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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