Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese 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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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