Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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