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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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quotistSuccess is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~Persian Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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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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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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