The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Do not beat the wolf, and do not cause hunger to the sheep. ~Arabic Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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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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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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