One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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