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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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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