To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic 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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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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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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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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