The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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