If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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