It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen 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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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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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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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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