Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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