From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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I think when it comes to botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices. ~Debra Winger
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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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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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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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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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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