Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. ~Maya Angelou
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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