When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you want a friend, be a friend. ~English Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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