If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~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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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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