When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. ~Cleanthes
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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