Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
#quotes #edward-hallowell #mind #memories #imagination

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
#quotes #trevor-baylis #inspiration #ideas #night

A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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