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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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quotistWhen you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~Oliver Goldsmith
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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