I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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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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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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