A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish 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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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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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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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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