Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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