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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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish 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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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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