An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. ~Hannah More
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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