As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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