A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish 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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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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