An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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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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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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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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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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