All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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It is objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. ~Quint Studer
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African 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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