If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese 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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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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If you read my message, it means I am cute. If you save, you agree I am cute. If you forward, you spread that I am cute and if you delete, you are jealous, because I am cute.
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners. ~Carol Roth
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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