I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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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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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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