Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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