With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English 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
#quotes #franklin-d-roosevelt #life #nation

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
#quotes #tim-pawlenty #barack-obama #politics #leadership #united-states

"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 pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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