Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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