The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~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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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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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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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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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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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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