Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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I love to work, so give me what you have got. I will play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work. ~Danny Trejo
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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