In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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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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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive. ~Anne Meara
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know. ~Hunter Hayes
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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