Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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