As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. ~African Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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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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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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