The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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