In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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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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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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