When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him. ~Gautama Buddha
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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