He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. ~Dan Brown
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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