Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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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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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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