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...nationalists of Syria were a threat to them, the U.S. display offended them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria's side, mindful of the old Arab proverb: "My brother and I will fight my cousin, but if a stranger threatens, my brother, my cousin, and I will fight the stranger...
...world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay in winter." Today, as in Stalin's time, Mikoyan serves indispensably-and survives. Says a Briton who has watched Mikoyan for years: "He knows how to jump at the right time...
...stomped off the set of A Farewell to Arms in a rancorous farewell to Producer David O. Selzniclc last April, Farewell Scriptwriter Ben Hecht smiled the smile of a man who can distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...
...Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge, with him, if he would bring home knowledge...
...book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart of an enraged patriot. On Dutourd's lips, the famed French proverb becomes: "To understand all is to forgive nothing...