Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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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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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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