No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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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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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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Good morning. Love is the most beautiful truth of life. Never ignore the person who loves you.
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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