From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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