Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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