When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced, a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted. ~Georges Canguilhem
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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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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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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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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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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