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THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.


Rabindranath Tagore

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NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
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DEYTH BANGER God does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays
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JEFFREY FRY We are not at the point where we would use the measures Israel does, but we understand them better.
FRANCOIS GERE Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which me...
C.S. LEWIS [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
SAMUEL BUTLER Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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JOELLE CHARBONNEAU Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
CHELSEA HANDLER We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
ALLY CONDIE Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
RIGAS .... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....
DEYTH BANGER There’s nothing worse than not being wanted
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MITCH ALBOM Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.
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RITA STRADLING My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that ne...
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ALFA H Perfection does not start with perfection in mind,but with imperfection.
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R.J. SCOTT It does not represent the Navajo Nation at this point.
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JANE HARMAN Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
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BERNARD VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
BERNARD DE VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
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VENUS WILLIAMS To "Move On" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't keep everyone happy.

To "Move...
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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JOAN BAUER Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
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STEVEN WIETING Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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OLIVER A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the bl...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Aku nggak membencimu. Aku hanya benci karena ternyata begitu sulit melupakanmu.
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GRANT WILLIAMSON God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. JAMES God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
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MARGO JEFFERSON They're offering us some opportunity to move forward, but not at the speed we want.
JASON STEPHENS A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU God creates a worm for every bird - but He does not throw it in the nest.
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
RABINDRANATH TAGORE when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for y...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Wh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside th...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that imm...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We live in this world when we love it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for real...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
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