When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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