If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. ~Arthur Machen
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do. ~Warren Spahn
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