Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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