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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosThe natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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