Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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