When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish 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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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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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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