As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there is a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love. ~Triple H
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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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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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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