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“It’s kind of like the … ‘you don’t know what you have until it’s gone’ adage,” said Norah Eddy, associate director of the Nature Conservancy’s oceans program in California.

The old political adage that “where you stand depends upon where you sit” has been getting aired out in Washington.

Well at least it gives credence to the old adage, “ Clichéd minds think alike.”

Throughout all this, Palestinians who have survived in Gaza until now have lived out the adage that necessity is the mother of invention.

"There's an old Wall Street adage of finding the signal in the noise, but never has it been more important than right now," said Malek.