An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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