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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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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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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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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