When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish 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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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian 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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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~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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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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