In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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