Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Truth is time's daughter. ~Spanish Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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Three things see no end. A flower blighted ere it bloomed. A message that was wasted. And a journey that was doomed. ~Mercedes Lackey
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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