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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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish 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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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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