You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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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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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African 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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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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