There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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