Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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