If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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