To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. ~Junot Diaz
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~English Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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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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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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