Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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