Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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