Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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