Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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