Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~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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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers, both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the "Harmony For Humanity" e-Stage. ~Russell Simmons
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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