Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. ~Jim Palmer
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A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~Iban Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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