Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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