A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African 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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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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