If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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