It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic 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 throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~Graham Phillips
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Those who begin many things finish but a few. ~Italian Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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Our directives must be reassessed. ~Kane
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English 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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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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