When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverbs
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
#quotes #j-r-r-tolkien #love #inspiration #darkness

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
#quotes #max-lerner #peace #brotherhood #wish

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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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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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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