I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosAdam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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quotistWhen eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen 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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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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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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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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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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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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