Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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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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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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