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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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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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proverbiosThe worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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