The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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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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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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