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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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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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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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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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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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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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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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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