Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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Praise the young and they will blossom. ~Irish Proverb
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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