A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~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 look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~William Arthur Ward
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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