If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese 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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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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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
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese 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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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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