If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English 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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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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