Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen 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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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