Suggestions
We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosOne dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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