Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic 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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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. ~Michio Kaku
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic 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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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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