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| #8994 |  | An idle mind is worth two in the bush. 
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| #8995 |  | An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation. 
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| #8996 |  | An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. -- Michael Korda
 
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| #8997 |  | An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. -- Spanish proverb
 
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| #8998 |  | "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge." 
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| #8999 |  | And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. -- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
 
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| #9000 |  | Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. -- Proverbs, 26:5
 
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| #9001 |  | Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.  For instance, my
 grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence."
 I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
 -- Solomon Short
 
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| #9002 |  | Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris
 
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| #9003 |  | Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
 From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
 -- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
 
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