Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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