You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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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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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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