The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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