Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb
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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
#quotes #vivienne-westwood #teenage #girls #boys

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Blood is thicker than water. ~English Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin 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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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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