The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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