You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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