Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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