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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Into every life a little rain must fall; It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; 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)

  3. Quotation - Wikipedia

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    A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.

  4. Weather lore - Wikipedia

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    Rain before seven, clear by eleven. Late-night rains and early morning rains may simply be the last precipitation of a passing weather front. However, since fronts pass at night as often as they do in the day, morning rain is no predictor of a dry afternoon. However, this lore can describe non-frontal weather.

  5. Mahāvākyas - Wikipedia

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    from the soma comes the rain, from the earth the herbs, the male pours the seed into the female, thus many beings are begotten from the Purusha. From him come the Rig verses, the Saman chants, the Yajus formulae, the Diksha rites, all sacrifices, all ceremonies and all gifts, the year too, the sacrificers, the worlds,

  6. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    Others are taken from such diverse sources as poetry, [33] [34] stories, [35] songs, commercials, advertisements, movies, literature, etc. [36] A number of the well known sayings of Jesus, Shakespeare, and others have become proverbs, though they were original at the time of their creation, and many of these sayings were not seen as proverbs ...

  7. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .

  8. Rain (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Rain opens with a quote from Antonio Porchia and Paterson regularly works off the work of other writers (often non-English language writers) such as Slavoj Žižek, Li Po, and César Vallejo. Rain contains 30 poems. Aside from the title poem some of the more famous poems included are: Two Trees; The Swing; Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths; The ...

  9. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung - Wikipedia

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    Quotations continues to be a symbol of Mao Zedong Thought in China today. In certain situations, the book is given as a gift, for example, when public funds are involved, or when personal events arise, such as congratulating newlyweds. Today in China, the book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is mostly seen as a piece of nostalgia.