The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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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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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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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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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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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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To eat off another man's plate. [To live on another's expense.] ~Juvenal
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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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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
#quotes #hugh-jackman #love #marriage

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
#quotes #emily-watson #relationship #surprise

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
#quotes #ray-davies #time

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
#proverbs #stupidity

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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