What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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