When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. ~Lynda Resnick
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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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
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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