They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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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 occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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