The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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quotistEvery dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese 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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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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