The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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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 is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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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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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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