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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosTo set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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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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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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