Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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