Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish 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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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