In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~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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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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