When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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