A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German 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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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ~Arthur Capper
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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