Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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