Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ~Ted Olson
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian 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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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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