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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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business, that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. ~George Eliot
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish 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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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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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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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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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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