Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French 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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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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