Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish 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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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African 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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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~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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