They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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proverbiosThe first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
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randomThe ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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