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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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quotistWorries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese 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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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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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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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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