The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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