Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated; preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. ~Thomas Sowell
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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There is no time like the present. ~English Proverb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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