Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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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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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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