He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ~Ernest Holmes
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen 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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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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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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