You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me ~Ray LaMontagne
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French 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 best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. ~Simon Cowell
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
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