I only discovered the "Harry Potter" series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of "Harry Potter" didn't help much, and I fared poorly. ~Sonam Kapoor
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish 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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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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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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