That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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