When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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