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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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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