Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ~Bill Budge
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
#quotes #george-eliot #youth

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
#quotes #bill-burr #brotherhood #ohio