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Food, Sojin

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You’ll get punished if you throw away a food flyer ad, that means life itself. - PARK Sojin (1986- ), Girl's Day

Wine, John

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The Wedding at Cana. Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now. - John 2,10 http://info.catholic.or.kr/bible/list.asp?gubun=new2 http://www.nccbuscc.org/bible/john/2

Food, Sean Stewart

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There ain't no such thing as wrong food. - Sean Stewart

Advice, Chinese Proverb

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良药苦口 [liángyàokǔkǒu] - 中國俗談 Bitter pills may have wholesome effects. - Chinese Proverb good medicine tastes bitter; bitter pills may have wholesome effects—good advice is hard to take; the remedy is tough but salutary

Advice, Chinese Proverb

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種豆得豆。 - 中國俗談 种豆得豆 [zhòngdòudédòu] Reap the fruits of one's actions. - Chinese Proverb Plant sow beans and get beans. References 种瓜得瓜 种豆得豆 [zhòngguādéguā zhòngdòudédòu] Plant melons and get melons, sow beans and get beans. |

Appearance, N. D. Stice

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Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. - N. D. Stice

Advice, Chinese Proverb

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種瓜得瓜。 - 中國俗談 种瓜得瓜 [zhòngguādéguā] Reap as one has sown. - Chinese Proverb

Friend, Chinese Proverb

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衣莫若新 人莫若故 - 中國俗談 Friendship is like wine - the older, the better. - Chinese Proverb

Advice, Chilean Proverb

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Never defecate more than what you eat. - Chilean Proverb

Wisdom, Chinese Proverb

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A good rat will not injure the grain near its own hole. - Chinese Proverb

Work, Chinese Proverb

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空行空返。 - 中國俗談 No song, no supper. - Chinese Proverb

Cake, Czech Proverb

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Bez práce nejsou koláče. Literal translation: There are no cakes without a job. - Czech Proverb Idiomatic translation: No pain, no gain. Source: Šedivý, Ivo Bez práce nejsou koláče (1982)

Family, Book of Proverbs

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Better a dry crust with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. + Book of Proverbs 17, 1 [17:1] A “better than” saying, stating the circumstances when a dry crust is better than a banquet. Peace and fellowship give joy to a meal, not the richness of the food. For a similar thought, see 15:16 and 16:8. http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/ http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Vocation, Book of Isaiah

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Yet just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it. + The Book of Isaiah 55,10-11 http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/55