The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. ~Native American Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish 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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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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