There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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