In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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