We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. ~William Wilberforce
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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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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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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