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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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Seeing is different than being told.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
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The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.
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You should know what’s being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might eat a forbidden food.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess.
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