The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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