If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French 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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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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