The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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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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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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