A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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The sinning is the best part of repentance. ~Arabic Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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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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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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