I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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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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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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