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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proverbiosIt is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian 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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quotistA tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen 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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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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