A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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