When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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