When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. ~Len Goodman
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~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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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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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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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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