Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. ~Bono
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies. ~Italian Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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