Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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