Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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