The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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