A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. – Arabic Proverb

Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabic Proverb
I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb
It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise
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But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nations future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. – Kevin Rudd
