The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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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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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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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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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~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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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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