Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~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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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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