Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. ~Madeleine Albright
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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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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. ~Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. ~Errol Morris
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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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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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