Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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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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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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