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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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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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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosThere ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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