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There is a saying that the first thing to do when you are stuck in a deep hole is to stop digging.

[...] [...] traditional proverbs, advancing [...]

[...] ancient Greek proverb: “know thyself”, [...] [...]

It tends to be collectively owned and takes the form of stories, songs, folklore, proverbs, cultural values, beliefs, rituals, community laws, local language and agricultural practices, including the development of plant species and animal breeds.

As one Haitian proverb has it, a borrowed drum never makes for good dancing.

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

The Mishnah includes some nonlegal material, notably the Pirke Avot ("Chapters of the Fathers"), a collection of wise sayings that forms the final treatise of the Neziqin.

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in the world and provided a critical spawning and juvenile growth area for tuna and other globally significant fish species.

There is an Arabic proverb that says “Those who do not speak out against wrong are but a silent Satan”.

[...] of five haggadic sayings transmitted by [...] [...]

[...] [...] Pentateuch, Ruth, Proverbs, Canticles, [...] [...]

The proverb may vary among continents, [...]

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly stressed the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and decided to consider at its sixty-seventh session the reports of the Secretary-General on concrete recommendations to enhance the implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (A/66/278) and on the review of United Nations system support to small island developing States (A/66/218), issued for the sixty-sixth session (resolution 66/198).

We all know the saying according to which punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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[...] [...] Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Poland, [...] [...]

[...] Psalms, Job, Proverbs, and Daniel [...]

In conclusion, in the context of world peace and the Middle East, I would like to stress that while we understand all sorts of needs arising on security, it would be better for that region and the whole world if the situation of Iran could be stopped from moving towards conflict, because it will be the sort of conflict that might have a very unfortunate impact on the world and that might be the proverbial last straw that breaks the camel’s back on world peace.

The programme engaged the elderly in documenting ancient proverbs and metaphors and then retelling them to young people, who were encouraged to reflect on, internalize and discuss the stories from their own points of view.

In Burundi, a United Nations Volunteers project worked with Burundian women to promote peace by reintroducing traditional knowledge and ancient proverbs that emphasize Burundi’s common heritage as a way to heal divides between the Hutu and Tutsi minorities.