The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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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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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian 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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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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