Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese 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
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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