You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French 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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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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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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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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