I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A good laugh and a long sleep are two best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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