The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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