It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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