It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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The world will be balanced when we are balanced. ~Tarthang Tulku
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Death always comes too early or too late. ~English Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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