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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #experience
proverbiosComplete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #happiness
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
#quotes #paul-ryan #taxation
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
#quotes #hans-kung #poverty
At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #gambling
I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
#quotes #alain-robert #climbing #building
What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
#quotes #lisa-ling #conscious
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
#proverbs #native-american-proverbs #environment
As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
#quotes #theodore-sturgeon #dream
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
#quotes #muriel-barbery #world
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
#quotes #georg-c-lichtenberg #freedom #free-will
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
#quotes #gene-tunney #sports
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #freedom #work
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
#quotes #max-lerner #peace #brotherhood #wish
The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #love #deeds
Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
#quotes #craig-claiborne #entertainment #santa
randomFasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #fasting #eating #wisdom
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
#quotes #nguyen-cao-ky #peace #united-states
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #tea #truth