Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. ~Gavin de Becker
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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