There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh 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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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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