We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~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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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese 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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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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The debate over same sex "marriage" has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. ~Elliott Abrams
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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