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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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A good maxim is never out of season. ~English Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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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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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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