Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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