The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. ~Jane Austen
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian 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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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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