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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosWe have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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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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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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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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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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