God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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