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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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proverbiosGod helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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