The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
#quotes #dodinsky #friendship

If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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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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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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