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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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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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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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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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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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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