The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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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 go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~Dave Davies
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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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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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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