A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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