If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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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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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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