Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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I think "Voldemort" is definitely the scariest villain. ~Lauren Oliver
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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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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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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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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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