Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African 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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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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