This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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