Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English 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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