If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese 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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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant. ~Raghav Bahl
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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