I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish 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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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~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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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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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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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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