The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth; at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. ~Eileen Claussen
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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