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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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quotistA single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. ~Gisele Bundchen
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well; nothing. ~Phoebe Tonkin
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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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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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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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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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