You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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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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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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