Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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