A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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