In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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