Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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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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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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