Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. ~Edward Young
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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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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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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