If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #helping #happiness

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #prayer

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
#quotes #ben-jonson #reality

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
#quotes #hermann-hesse #thinking #pleasure #sorrow #youth

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
#quotes #nancy-e-turner #women #marriage #mother

A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
#quotes #james-stewart #acting

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
#quotes #richard-lamm #democrat #politics

A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #nature

When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #fraud

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #reason

You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #books #shallow

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
#quotes #joss-whedon #thinking #mistakes #change

Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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