The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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