If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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