A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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