A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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