The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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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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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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