In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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