Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin' from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. ~Marty Stuart
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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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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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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