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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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proverbiosI feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
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An angry man is full of poison. ~Confucius
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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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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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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