Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. ~Evelyn Glennie
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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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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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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