Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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It 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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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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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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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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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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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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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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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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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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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan 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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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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