Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese 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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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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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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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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