People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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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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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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