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
#quotes #peter-thiel #education #thinking

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ~Bobby Rahal
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
#quotes #sylvia-plath #children

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
#quotes #john-spence #vision

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
#quotes #peter-o-toole #50s #60s

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #trust

Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
#quotes #charles-bukowski #wish

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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There will be many times in your lives; at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up; when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~Julie Andrews
#quotes #julie-andrews #action #distraction

Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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