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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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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