"I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet."

Proverb, Jewish on complaints and complaining
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Watts, Alan W. on zen
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"Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you."

Twain, Mark on learning
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards."

Twain, Mark on idiots
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"Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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