If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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