Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. ~Shimon Peres
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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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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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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