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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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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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proverbiosIt 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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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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