Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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