The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. ~J. P. Morgan
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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