Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian 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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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