You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Life without a friend, is death without a witness. ~Spanish Proverb
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~Bill Keller
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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