It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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