When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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