Life, Clifton Fadiman
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Clifton Fadiman
여행을 할 때는 여행하고 있는 국가가 너에게 편의를 제공하기 위해 설계된 것이 아니라는 점을 기억하라. 그 나라는 자국민들이 편안하게 살도록 설계되었다.
- 클리프턴 패디먼
Kindness, Malaysian saying
One can pay back the loan of gold,but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malaysian saying
금을 빌린 빚은 갚을 수 있지만, 친절의 빚은 영원히 갚지 못하고 죽는다.
- 말레이시아속담
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Money, Western Proverb
The best use of money is to pay debts.
- Western Proverb
돈을 쓰는 가장 좋은 방법은 빚을 갚는 것이다.
- 서양속담
Amazons, Shakespeare
Charles: Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon
And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene ii.
To Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), after fighting and losing to her.
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And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene ii.
To Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), after fighting and losing to her.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amazons
Adversity, Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adversity
- Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adversity
Birthday., John Glenn
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
- John Glenn
Animals, James A. Froude
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
- James A. Froude, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, ISBN 083699096X, 9780836990966, 396 pages], p. 67
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- James A. Froude, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, ISBN 083699096X, 9780836990966, 396 pages], p. 67
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Death, Grand Inquisitor Silecio
Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.
- Grand Inquisitor Silecio, in The Fountain, screenplay by Darren Aronofsky.
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- Grand Inquisitor Silecio, in The Fountain, screenplay by Darren Aronofsky.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Death
Mind, Isaac Asimov
It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.
- Isaac Asimov, The Beginning and the End (1977) as quoted in Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier (1997)
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- Isaac Asimov, The Beginning and the End (1977) as quoted in Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier (1997)
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Anemone, William Cullen Bryant
Within the woods,
Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast
A shade, gray circles of anemones
Danced on their stalks.
- William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel.
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Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast
A shade, gray circles of anemones
Danced on their stalks.
- William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers#Anemone
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