If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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