We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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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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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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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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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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