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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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proverbiosDeal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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