Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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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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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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