A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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