In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian 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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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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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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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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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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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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