It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
#quotes #osamu-dazai #life #mother #hardship

Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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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
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity