Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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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
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #trust

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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