The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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Do not try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you. ~Mooji
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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