A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ~English Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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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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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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