Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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