The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese 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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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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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 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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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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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese 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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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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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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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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