Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish 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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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
#quotes #zach-johnson #cinderella #work

A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
#quotes #john-mackey #taxation #ethics

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #heart

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
#quotes #tim-pawlenty #barack-obama #politics #leadership #united-states

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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