Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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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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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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