Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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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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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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Better no doctor at all than three. ~Polish 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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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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