Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese 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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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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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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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. ~Spanish Proverb
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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