The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ~Lynda Barry
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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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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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish 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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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