It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. ~Moses
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