The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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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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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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