If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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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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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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