Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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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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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. ~Robert M. Parker
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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
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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