Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~Sun Tzu
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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