The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
#quotes #eugene-field #happiness #hardship

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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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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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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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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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
#quotes #peter-thiel #education #thinking

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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