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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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English 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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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese 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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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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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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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
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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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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin 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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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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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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