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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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quotistThe grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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