An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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