Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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I am a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. ~Gore Vidal
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. ~Jim Costa
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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A teacher is better than two books. ~German 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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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
#quotes #osamu-dazai #life #mother #hardship

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
#quotes #benjamin-franklin #motivation

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
#quotes #rabindranath-tagore #human #leadership

To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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