This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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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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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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