A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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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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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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