A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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