What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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