There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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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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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
#message #cute

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we shall see. ~Spanish Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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