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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A friend to everyone is a friend to no one; A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; A little learning is a dangerous thing; A leopard cannot change its spots; A man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills; A mill cannot grind with the water that is past; A miss is as good as a mile; A new language is a new life ...

  3. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - Wikipedia

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    The slow cinema movie, hyper reality, consists of a series of mostly self-contained tableaux, sometimes connected by recurring themes or characters.The story loosely follows two travelling novelty salesmen, Jonathan and Sam, who live in a desolate flophouse, and their unsuccessful attempts to win customers for their joke articles (vampire teeth, laughing bags and a monster mask). [10]

  4. Portal:Birds/Quotes - Wikipedia

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    People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.

  5. Sinhala idioms and proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Like letting off the bird in hand and trying to catch the one on the tree. Same meaning as "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". Oruwa peraluna pita hondai keeva wagei (ඔරුව පෙරළුණ පිට හොඳයි කීවා වගෙයි) Like saying the underside is better when the boat capsizes.

  6. Sympathy (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem itself is divided into three stanzas. The first stanza revolved around the "caged bird" longing for freedom as spring and freedom exist around it. In stanza two, the bird is described as fighting to be free and escape the cage. Finally, the third stanza is about, as Burns notes, "the nature of the bird's song", as a "prayer for freedom."

  7. Birches (poem) - Wikipedia

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    And not one but hung limp, not one was left For him to conquer. He learned all there was To learn about not launching out too soon And so not carrying the tree away Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise To the top branches, climbing carefully With the same pains you use to fill a cup Up to the brim, and even above the brim.

  8. Matthew 10:29 - Wikipedia

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    (vid. Ps. 124:7.) Caught by the bait of present pleasures, and sold to the enjoyment of the world, they barter away their whole selves in such a market. It is of the will of God that one of them rather soar aloft; but the law proceeding according to God’s appointment decrees that one of them should fall.

  9. Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia

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    The law was supposed to be a voluntary relocation program, but it was not implemented as one. Jackson's administration often achieved agreement to relocate through bribes, fraud and intimidation, [ 233 ] and the leaders who signed the treaties often did not represent the entire tribe. [ 234 ]

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