Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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