Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese 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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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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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 teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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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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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian 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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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian 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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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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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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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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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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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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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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