Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #happiness

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #life #weeping

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
#quotes #matt-chandler #science #supernatural

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
#quotes #len-goodman #airports

Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
#quotes #ray-kurzweil #intelligence #simplicity #complexity

One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #persistence

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
#quotes #benjamin-netanyahu #israel

A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #optimism

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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