America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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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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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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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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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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