Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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Truly, the sword inspires dread even in its scabbard. ~Arabic Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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