A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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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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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
#quotes #paul-kane #socializing

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. ~Coco Austin
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
#quotes #albert-schweitzer #nature #environment

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. ~Craig Claiborne
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. ~St. Vincent
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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