Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~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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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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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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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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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese 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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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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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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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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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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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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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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