The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right. ~Melody Beattie
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
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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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