God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ~Malcolm Forbes
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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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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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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