Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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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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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish 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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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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