When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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