There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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