Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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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 picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
#quotes #confucius #happiness

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish 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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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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