I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic 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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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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