Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist 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 sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African 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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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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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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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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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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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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