A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese 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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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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