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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so; It goes without saying; It is a small world; It is all grist to the mill; It is an ill wind (that blows no one any good) It is best to be on the safe side; It is better to be smarter than you appear than to appear smarter than you are

  3. The Best Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Uplift You Out ...

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    Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—

  4. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

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    "Tell me what you don't like about yourself" Dr. McNamara and Dr. Troy: Nip/Tuck [50] "Thank you veddy much" Latka Gravas: Taxi [49] "That would be so cool! So cool" Arthur Kensington Jr., "The Nerd" Robot Chicken "That's hot" Paris Hilton: The Simple Life [50] "That's what she said!" Michael Scott: The Office [54] "The thrill of victory, the ...

  5. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

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    Juan Luis Vives quotes the phrase "on shoulders of giants" in his De causis corruptarum artium (1531) with disapproval: For it is a false and fond similitude, which some writers adopt, though they think it witty and suitable, that we are, compared with the ancients, as dwarfs upon the shoulders of giants. It is not so.

  6. List of sundial mottos - Wikipedia

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    Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours. Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours. Has date of 1767; Life is but a shadow: the shadow of a bird on the wing. Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky. [3] [4]

  7. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. [6] The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."

  8. Golden Rule - Wikipedia

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    A Bedouin came to the prophet, grabbed the stirrup of his camel and said: O the messenger of God! Teach me something to go to heaven with it. Prophet said: "As you would have people do to you, do to them; and what you dislike to be done to you, don't do to them. Now let the stirrup go! [This maxim is enough for you; go and act in accordance ...

  9. Saying - Wikipedia

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    Mantra: a religious, mystical, or other spiritual saying that is repeated, for example, in meditation. Maxim: (1) an instructional expression of a general principle or rule of morality or (2) simply a synonym for "aphorism"; they include: Brocard; Gnome; Legal maxim; Motto: a saying used frequently by a person or group to summarize its general ...