The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew 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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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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