proverbiosA little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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quotistI had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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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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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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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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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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