There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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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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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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