I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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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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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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