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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    From a Great War soldiers' song; the phrase was most notably referred to by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) in his farewell address to the Congress. Once a(n) _, always a(n) _ Once bitten, twice shy; One good turn deserves another; One half of the world does not know how the other half lives; One hand washes the other

  3. Edward Zellem - Wikipedia

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    Edward Zellem is a retired U.S. Navy captain and the 12-time award-winning author of 5 books. He is known for his work inside Afghanistan's Presidential Palace [1] and for authoring three bilingual collections of Afghan Proverbs: Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs, a book for children entitled Afghan Proverbs Illustrated, and a companion book of Pashto proverbs entitled Mataluna: 151 ...

  4. Delphic maxims - Wikipedia

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    In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs. Each maxim has a long history of interpretation, although the third of the set has received comparatively little attention. A further 147 maxims, documented by Stobaeus in the 5th century AD, were also located somewhere in the vicinity of the temple. The antiquity and ...

  5. 40 Short Bible Verses About Family Love and Unity - AOL

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    You come into this world with family. They are arguably the most important thing to an individual besides faith. ... her arms are powerful.”— Proverbs 31:15-17. Matthew 19:19 “Honor your ...

  6. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    Not all Biblical proverbs, however, were distributed to the same extent: one scholar has gathered evidence to show that cultures in which the Bible is the major spiritual book contain "between three hundred and five hundred proverbs that stem from the Bible," [6] whereas another shows that, of the 106 most common and widespread proverbs across ...

  7. List of Classical Greek phrases - Wikipedia

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    "for the prettiest one", "to the most beautiful" From the myth of the Golden Apple of Discord. Diagoras of Rhodes carried in the stadium by his two sons Κάτθανε, Διαγόρα, οὐ καὶ ἐς Ὄλυμπον ἀναβήσῃ Kátthane, Diagóra, ou kaì es Ólumpon anabḗsēi. "Die, Diagoras — you will certainly not ascend Olympus."

  8. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    The first person on Hart's list is the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms, being responsible for both the foundations of Islam as well as the Early Muslim conquests uniting the Arabian Peninsula and eventually a wider caliphate after his death.

  9. Category:English proverbs - Wikipedia

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