The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic 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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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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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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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am a big horror fan. I am a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make. ~Amber Heard
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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