Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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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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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #death #equality

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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