A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
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