Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. ~Kenyan proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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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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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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