Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish 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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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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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did; I just wanted to do it. ~B.o.B
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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