Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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