I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ~Michael Arad
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese 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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