Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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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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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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