Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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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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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese 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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Good morning. Love is the most beautiful truth of life. Never ignore the person who loves you.
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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