And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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