God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish 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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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