A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian 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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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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