Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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