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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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proverbiosNot only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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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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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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