Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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