A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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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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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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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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Blood is thicker than water. ~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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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American 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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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