The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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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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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. ~Proverb
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ~Julia Barr
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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