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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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quotistProverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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