It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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