Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian 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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That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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