Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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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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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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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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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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