I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African 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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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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