Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic 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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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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