Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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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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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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