After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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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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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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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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