Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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