I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish 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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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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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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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A moment of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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