Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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