Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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While we teach, we learn. ~Seneca
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease. ~Eric Kandel
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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