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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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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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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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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