As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #equality #destiny

As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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