Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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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 maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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