The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish 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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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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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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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