What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen 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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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~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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